Easing into Summer

When friends e-mail, call or text me with messages and pleas to cook together, it always makes me smile. It’s been a tough week in the cooking with friends department, with graduations, parties and year-end school events occupying every free moment. Sadly, I didn’t have a single cooking date this week, which is unusual to say the least.

I’ve been in high gear, pre-vacation mode, using up the foods that are stored in my freezer. Banana bread, quiche and cinnamon rolls — each one conjuring up memories of a nice time cooking with friends — came in handy to serve the mom’s at my son’s 6th birthday party and empanadas, spring rolls and mini caramelized onion and blue cheese tarts — more good memories — fantastic appetizers for a friend’s 40th birthday bash.

An empty freezer will soon cry “cook for me” and prompt numerous plans. But even with all the busyness, there are lots of cooking plans being made: summertime sauce-making dates, plans to stock a friend’s freezer with healthy dinners, and weekly CSA cooking dates. It’s these plans, and promises of times to soon come that make up for this week’s drought.

when people would like to realese their nerve and body,we always like to get together with our friends ,having a party ,make a meeting and enjoy our time. this is also what i want . but the pression of work ,i usually don’t have time . what a pity .i like your easing life.

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About Alison J. Bermack

It all began when I was a child cooking with my dad, the kitchen a magnet for cooking and camaraderie, a refuge from adolescence. I spent countless hours chopping, sautéing and simmering my way through childhood. And now, with three kids of my own, I’m still chopping, but this time through their childhood and often with friends.